Humans copy rapidly increasing choices in a multiarmed bandit problem

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 326-333

  Toelch, Ulf ^a,b   Bruce, Matthew J ^b   Meeus, Marius T H ^c   Reader, Simon M ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conformist transmission; Cultural evolution; Innovation; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955571563     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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